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Gowings used to be the store of choice for Sydney gents in search of a suit or a moustache wax. Now it has been reborn as QT Sydney, a 200-room hotel with a day spa and a New York-style bar and grill. The project includes the upper floors of the adjoining (and still open) State Theatre, an Art Deco masterpiece from 1929. 'There is a theatrical element to the hotel,' says Shelley Indyk, who created the rooms, 'but it's no nostalgia: the design is about today.' QT Sydney, 49 Market Street (00 800 3746 8357; www.designhotels.com/qt_sydney). Doubles from A$420 (about £270) Related stories